Count me in on the Cryptonomicon love. I've tried Quicksilver twice now, with no success, though.
Hallowed Hunt is good, quite different from the other two. I have to say I really like her idea for the gods and their portfolios.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 5:34:39 am PDT #636 of 28061
move out and draw fire
-t - Jun 10, 2006 7:34:36 am PDT #637 of 28061
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!
Yes! I just got my copy a few days ago. Such an interesting world. i wish it had a map included.
I really enjoyed the Baroque Cycle a lot, and it made me want to go back an re-read Cryptonomicon. It'll probably be a while though, those big loafs of book are hard to pick up again.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 7:35:36 am PDT #638 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I would just like to state that I am forty pages from the end of The Name of the Rose, which is farther than many people who have begun the book have gotten, I am told.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:40:10 am PDT #639 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me. I like seeing how much Latin I can recall.
I tried to read Foucault's Pendulum many years ago, but gave it up. Course, this was in college, when my brilliant pre-reading strategy for any halfway philosopical text was to smoke some pot, read, and wait for flashes of enlightenment. Strangely enough, this strategy made me hungry rather than transcendent.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 7:42:15 am PDT #640 of 28061
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me.
It's taken me longer than I anticipated. All the papal politics both bore and confuse me.
I have Foucault's Pendulum ready to start next, but I'm afraid. It seems like it might be a wee bit more exciting, though.
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:51:02 am PDT #641 of 28061
move out and draw fire
I found Foucault's Pendulum to be rougher going than Name of the Rose, although I liked it immensely. I'm a medieval fangirl, particularly the high weirdness that was the Church, so I was comfortable in the Rose world, but modern Italian politics and Italians were terra incognita to me. I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.
I read Eliot's The Wasteland at the same time I read Foucault's Pendulum, and pot would've helped with both.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:53:02 am PDT #642 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:56:09 am PDT #643 of 28061
move out and draw fire
t groan
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2006 7:57:45 am PDT #644 of 28061
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:59:30 am PDT #645 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)